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Black and white rhinos in the Umfolosi Game Reserve |
| Author(s): |
Dales, D.H. |
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1966 |
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Redwing, Journal of the S. Andrew's College Natural History Society |
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1966 |
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32 |
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Names in vernacular
White Rhino
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| Round-lip |
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Morphology
White Rhino
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| The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do. |
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White Rhino
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| As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip... |
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Translocation - Methods
All Rhino Species
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| To spread the rhino population to the other reserves to prevent overcrowding, the rangers shoot darts that inject a sleeping drug into them. They are then moved while unconscious to the bomas, stout wooden enclosures, where they are kept for three months until. they are docile enough to be trans... |
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| The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do. |
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Black Rhino
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| The black rhino, a browser, can lift its head up. This the white rhino, a grazer, is unable to do. |
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Behaviour - Social Behaviour
White Rhino
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| The white rhino bull is very territorial in his habitat. He claims an area of bush for himself and then makes heaps of dung, known as middens, to mark the boundary. |
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Anatomy - Muscles
White Rhino
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| Another important distinguishing mark is the prominent hump on the back of the white rhino which the black rhino does not have. |
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| As opposed to common belief, one is not black and the other white. How the white rhino got its name, nobody knows, though it has been suggested that this is a derivation from the old Cape Dutch word 'witte', meaning huge. The white and black rhinos are also known respectively as the 'square-lip... |
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Reproduction
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| Gestation period 25 months |
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Black and white rhinos in the Umfolosi Game Reserve
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